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Ulrike Glueck is a renowned China expert and one of the leading lawyers advising international companies on M&A transactions and restructuring projects in China. After practicing law in Germany for several years, Ulrike has been working on-site in China since 1998 and has over 20 years experience in China-related work. She has advised a large number of companies in various industry sectors in projects relating to M&A, foreign direct investment, and restructuring.

Ulrike is the client relationship partner for a large number of the firm’s key clients, in particular in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, machinery and engineering, automotive and TMC sectors.

Ulrike Glueck “not only draws from her abundant experience in the support of German in-vestments in China, but is also capable of putting herself in the position of the investor and giving entrepreneurial advice.”

One of CMS, China's key clients in Europe

Ulrike Glueck “not only draws from her abundant experience in the support of German in-vestments in China, but is also capable of putting herself in the position of the investor and giving entrepreneurial advice.”

One of CMS, China's key clients in Europe

Relevant experience

Schuler AG on the acquisition of a Chinese machinery company.

SMA Solar Technology AG on the acquisition of a Chinese domestic new energy company in Suzhou and establishment of a joint venture company.

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In China, the PRC Su­preme People’s Court (“SPC”) has the power to is­sue in­ter­pret­a­tions of PRC stat­utory laws which are bind­ing on oth­er courts. In the past, the SPC has already re­leased four set of pro­vi­sions on is­sues con­cern­ing the ap­plic­a­tion of the PRC.

On 15 March 2019, the Na­tion­al People’s Con­gress of the People's Re­pub­lic of China (the “PRC”) pro­mul­gated the PRC For­eign In­vest­ment Law (the “FIL”). The FIL will come in­to ef­fect on 1 Janu­ary 2020.

For dec­ades for­eign in­vest­ment in­to China has been sub­ject to ap­prov­al by the com­pet­ent Au­thor­ity of Com­merce and re­gis­tra­tion with the com­pet­ent Ad­min­is­tra­tion for In­dustry and Com­merce. Also, not all in­dustry sec­tors were open to for­eign in­vest­ment.

On 25 Au­gust 2017 the Su­preme People’s Court (“SPC”) of the People’s Re­pub­lic of China (“PRC”) pro­mul­gated the Pro­vi­sions of the Su­preme People's Court on Sev­er­al Is­sues Re­lat­ing to Ap­plic­a­tion of the PRC Com­pany Law (IV) (“In­ter­pret­a­tion IV”).

It has been more than three months since theP­RC Cy­ber Se­cur­ity Law (“CSL”) has taken ef­fect on 1 June 2017. Ex­cept for the Pro­vi­sions on Ex­am­in­a­tion of Net­work Products and Ser­vices (Tri­al) (“NPS Pro­vi­sions”) which have come in­to ef­fect on the same day as.

Ac­cord­ing to the Pro­vi­sion­al Meas­ures on Man­age­ment of the Es­tab­lish­ment and Changes of For­eign In­ves­ted En­ter­prises (“Pro­vi­sion­al Meas­ures 2016”) which entered in­to ef­fect on 8 Oc­to­ber 2016, the ap­prov­al and ex­am­in­a­tion pro­ced­ures re­gard­ing for­eign-in­ves­ted.